If cricket's your game there's plenty of online action to keep you entertained this summer.

For followers of Durham, our own dedicated website www.thisisthenortheast.co.uk/sport/cricket/durham/ will keep you up with the news.

As well as match reports and pictures, there are also player profiles and a chance for you to have your say at the Fans' Forum.

Other North-East cricket clubs are also featured in our sports section at www.thisisthenortheast.co.uk where readers can get the latest news about our Under 15s schools cricket competition and our Greatest Throw on Earth competition.

For those cricket lovers who count themselves among the ranks of The Barmy Army, the Internet provides an opportunity for chat (on a Tuesday night), regular bulletins and a message board at www.barmy-army.com.

Dedicated followers will no doubt already have the most popular cricket website Cricinfo (www.cricinfo.com) bookmarked among their favourites. Calling itself "the home of cricket on the Internet" might seem a big claim, but this information-packed site also hosts the England and Wales Cricket Board and MCC sites.

There is also a "statsguru" facility, audio, video of competitions and areas devoted to county cricket.

And another must bookmark coming up will no doubt be the online version of the cricket bible Wisden (www.wisden.com). This site is due for a re-launch, believed to be costing £4m, in time for the Ashes.

But if your knowledge of cricket means you don't know your spin from your reverse sweep, then there is help at hand with a website dedicated to the MCC's Official Laws of Cricket.

A glossary of terms covers most expressions and there's plenty of information to help solve those summertime disputes at http://laban.vr9.com.

Published: Thursday, May 10